The stateā€™s education chief said Raichik will ā€œmake schools safer for kidsā€ even though her posts have inspired bomb threats at local schools.

Ryan Walters, the right-wing superintendent of the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE), has appointed Chaya Raichik, an anti-LGBTQ+ activist who goes by Libs of TikTok on social media, to serve on the OSDEā€™s Library Media Advisory Committee. The committee decides what state public school students are allowed to read.

Raichik, who doesnā€™t live in Oklahoma, has achieved national infamy as her posts targeting LGBTQ+ educators and allies have led to multiple bomb and death threats against schools, teachers, students, and childrenā€™s hospitals ā€” including two Oklahoma schools. She will likely support Waltersā€™s continued crusade against LGBTQĀ±inclusive books in public schools.

ā€œChaya is on the front lines showing the world exactly what the radical left is all about ā€” lowering standards, porn in schools, and pushing woke indoctrination on our kids,ā€ Walters wrote in a statement he issued on Tuesday morning via X.

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        Oh, that makes sense nowā€¦

        I hate TERFS, I just agree that censorship is bad unless itā€™s an opinion I donā€™t like.

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        I donā€™t know the person you are responding to and Iā€™m not deep-diving into comment histories, but I took it as meaning that the libs of TikTok lady claims to be a free speech advocate and is also fine with banning books and doesnā€™t see the obvious contradiction in thatā€¦ ā€œunironicallyā€.